Browse: CD, Bowen (composer)

The performers respond to both aspects of [Bowen's] music with muscular virtuosity and affection. Especially in the high tessitura of the slow movement, Tasmin Little’s tonal variety and rhythmic... — BBC Music Magazine More…

There’s a dazzling sheen to both the recording and performance of these British chamber works. I’ll always love the lilting Larghetto of Coleridge-Taylor’s Piano Quintet in Gminor, but it’s a... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This most welcome second volume of British overtures serves to accentuate the sheer diversity of works this country produced in the genre between the 1890s and the 1940s and, moreover, where... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016 More…

David Pyatt was only 20 or so when these recordings were made in the mid 1990s… His playing is musical and easily virtuosic - qualities on display in all these works, three of which were originally... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Danny Driver, whose debut on Hyperion was an acclaimed recording of Bowen's Third and Fourth piano concertos, is the ideal advocate for this glorious music, playing with razor-sharp articulation... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2009 More…